Re: [OT] Chinese Syntax

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From: red floyd (redfloyd11_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: 29 May 2004 19:35:09 -0700

Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote in message news:<c956k1$p2m$4@sunnews.cern.ch>...
> In <bu1cb0ltl9jqhs7pgpjeht4dh6jd4qbsac@4ax.com> Alan Balmer <albalmer@att.net> writes:

> None of the programming languages assigning semantics to indentation
> has ever become mainstream. There must be a reason...

Not true. You're living in the present. In the past, when punch card
input was the norm, indentation had a meaning. In particular, FORTRAN
IV required input to begin in column 7 (or was it 8?), with a '*' in
column 6(7) as continuation...

DISCLAIMER: It's been nigh onto 25 years since I've done FORTRAN IV.
My info on the specific columns may be incorrect.

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